Me liking every post calling Ruben Amorim a terrorist
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Real hoop and #rstats. github.com/daranzolin
LOCAL CYCLIST TRANSIT-MOGS GAS GUZZLING CAGE DWELLERS. MOTORISTS IN SHAMBLES CRYING AT THE PUMP
Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.
If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history
Now: 📕 The Overstory 🎮 Slay the Spire II 📺 Frieren Life is VERY good.
David Ranzolin@daranzolin.bsky.social · last yr.Now: 📕 Say Nothing 🎮 Expedition 33 I am MOVED. Life is good.
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Disco Elysium Quotes@discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5mo agoStill, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. It's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. Some alternative ending, or an entirely different world...
"Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause...They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom..." -Francis Fukuyama on #rstats in 2026
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5mo agoPlanning my next conversation starter
Local politics comes into focus when you see it less as liberal vs. conservative, but property owners vs. property seekers. Renters might be the least represented constituency in history.
Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 5mo agoAI EngagementMaxxing Prompt: What do you think could be the long-term effects of San Jose being the least affordable housing market in the world? Thank you to Michael and Sal for being very honest: "Keep them prices high at least until I sell my home" "I'm with you on that one!!"
It probably would've been {rextendr} vs. {Rcpp} but LLMs, advances in interoperability, and Posit have flattened the discourse. The critical mass of opinionated users has moved on. The fire is out; the #rstats flame wars are over.
Konsta Happonen@konsta.happonen.eu · 5mo agoSo, what's the next #rstats flame war on the schedule? Base |> vs. magrittr %>%?
All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
The Poison Always Drips Through
On Renee Good and George Floyd
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Seems odd (to me) that Posit is promoting dbt over {targets}, the time-honored, pure #rstats solution to this very problem.
Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social · 7mo agoIs your data "upstream" made up of R scripts and tears? Same. 🙋♀️ Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and me at the Data Science Lab in 30 mins! We’re diving into dbt from first principles with @mchow.com and @laurie-merrell.bsky.social. See you there! 🔗 pos.it/dslab
The most undefeated thing ever is retail sales going up once you kick cars out of the way. It has happened everywhere
Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 7mo agoMore good news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.2% in October! Or to quote the PDA's own words the market has had "exceptional sales performance of our tenants." (pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/fd1...) 📈 So far every month of the pedestrianization pilot sales have been up!
What could be more undignified than looking at your phone at the urinal?
{sqltargets} 0.3.0 just hit CRAN, now includes the ability to pass 'dbi' parameters into queries. Turns out using SQL with #rstats {targets} is pretty fun! github.com/daranzolin/s...
Getting faux-outraged or flabbergasted at every thing the cat does around the house is peak living.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
Gonna be a data.table person after seeing this. (slice_head/slice_max should’ve been peak())
Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 9mo agoDo you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
There was a house in my neighborhood with three signs: No on A No on 50 Rishi Kumar for Assessor Knowing nothing about Kumar, I knew immediately not to vote for him.
Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 9mo agoPeople of Santa Clara County. Put this on your calendar NOW. You need to vote AGAIN on December 30 to make sure Rishi Kumar does not become assessor in this run off election.
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leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 11mo agoCHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,
Found a right_join() in some of my old #rstats code and legit gasped out loud
"Which brings us to the real reason why Trump is an enemy of urban America. If cities like D.C. and Los Angeles truly were crime-ridden hellholes, they would pose little threat to the MAGA movement. It is because these are prosperous and dynamic places that they must be occupied."
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 12mo agoNotes on a nonexistent crime wave publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...
The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.
Nathan Lauster@lausterna.bsky.social · last yr.The Three Towers of Phase 1 of Sen̓áḵw nearing completion! senakw.com Pictured from near the Vancouver Academy of Music in what is now Vanier Park, but what was once yet another part of the old village of Sen̓áḵw and former Kitsilano 6 Reserve.
Finally checked the Use Native Pipe Operator RStudio #rstats option. For those constantly piping into [Vv]iew(), a small advantage to the native pipe is that the 'title' argument gets automatically supplied as the function call instead of the cryptic '.' from magrittr.
Unironically yes--to quote the scientists at the IPCC in a report on the MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE: '...cities will achieve the largest GHG emissions savings by replacing, repurposing, or retrofitting the building stock, targeted infilling and densifying...'
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Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · last yr.Wow I bet abundance liberalism will stop the ocean currents from reversing and house everyone in the face of insurance collapse and climate destruction
Now: 📕 Say Nothing 🎮 Expedition 33 I am MOVED. Life is good.
David Ranzolin@daranzolin.bsky.social · last yr.📺 Watching Andor. 📕 Reading Clytemnestra. 🎮 Playing Disco Elysium. Hitting the elite storytelling trifecta across all media.
Inside the NBA was neither informative nor entertaining. The emperor’s new clothes of sports shows. If I wanted to listen to a bunch of petty republican bullies spew nonsense I’d turn on Fox News.
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · last yr.Ernie Johnson with an emotional sign-off from 'Inside the NBA' on TNT. 🏀📺🎙️❤️ #NBA
This is the least sexy data and programming post of all time, but sqlfluff is great software. Useful, intuitive, and versatile, it's helped me write better code.